Show COMMENTS comm ON 0 THE 0 ANTI agar ET BILL t southwick bill as introduced will bea failure without cammi committee atee amendments the southwick alff cigarette bill has received more attention from the public and members of tho the legisla arturo than any other measure introduced during thil this session of foe tim togi legislature gla gi and regardless of tho the mer its or demerits do oe merits of the bill it ie to ro re that measures of really vital concern to the state have been allowed to be relocated relegated to the back ground members of the be legislature have boon been insistent in their prattle on a bill that appeals to the popular fancy despite its lack of merit to provide the measure of reform for which jt it was intended meanwhile measures designed to reorganize the state mate departments on a business basis the budget bill and taxation tation measures have been discussed only after certain members havu have exhausted themselves in defending the southwick bill ng as a cure all for the cigarette habit an analysis of the tea fea turee tures of the southwick bill should convince any interested person that the bill will come just about aa as near checking the aft us of cigarettes as a french parasol would come to chocking a 4 texas tes tornado to explain the southwick bill in sec I 1 makes it a ante misdemeanor demeanor for any person company or corporation to barters sell or keep for ep sale fors turn ish or give away any cigarettes or cifaretto ci garetto papers in or about any cay a etore tore or other place for barter or free distribution note noto that this does not prohibit the users of cigarettes from purchasing their supply of cigarettes for their verson al at use from sources the state nor does it prohibit openly using same gc IV akes it misdemeanor for any person to td smoke cigarettes cigar ettea or tobacco in any enclosed public place within tho the state of utah and then defines what x hall be deemed to be enclosed public pla places ices the law does nob delp prohibit the smoking of cigarettes in any public places not enumerated in this definition of enclosed public places in other words the southwick bill does two things it prohibits the sale swe or barter of cigarettes in utah but allows their importation by the individual for his own use it prohibits smoking in certain enumerated public places but permits the smoking of cigarettes in ajl eji other places not therein enumerated the committee amendments differ from the original bill only in that they permit the sale of cigarettes under a prohibitive license which method affords the most rigid regulation r A law can not be enforced when responsibility for its violation Is allowed to remain in parties outside the jurisdiction of our courts such is the provision of the southwick bill further the amended bill enforces the clause relating to the selling of tobacco to minors by adding that the minor who misrepresent bis his ago age in order to violate the tobacco law is also guilty of an misdemeanor as tie well As the adult who contributed to hta his delinquency such e provis provision don puts in the bill prom from a standpoint or sound antt tobacco legia legislation laUon the moat most that can be said of the southwick bill la in that it Is a little willie make believe and the committee amendments while far from perfect are sound and will really eo go far toward ac achieving the object for which the southwick bill was introduced and which it cannot bo be than a signal failure A CITIZEN |